Oooh, nice idea!

> On Feb 3, 2020, at 10:00 AM, Cassandra Targett <casstarg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Our Jira is connected to Confluence and supports some pretty nice integration 
> features. Instead of trying to organize 100s of issues in Jira, we could make 
> a "9.0 Planning" page in Confluence and use that integration to show us issue 
> status along our primary goals.
> 
> This integration is primarily driven from queries of Jira, so instead of a 
> page that’s a huge list of issues, we could use a combination of the Fix 
> Version field and labels (or any other combination of query-able data 
> elements) to make queries, charts, and/or reports for each goal we intend to 
> try to accomplish.
> 
> For example, if we want “Improve SolrCloud stability” to be something we 
> achieve before the release, we identify the Jira issues that define how we 
> plan to meet that goal and make a query for them. Then we set up a section of 
> the 9.0 Planning page to show the progress (either a list of issues, or a 
> chart, or both). Then every time anyone wants to know where we’re at, we just 
> go to the page and the status is automatically updated. If we’re not making 
> progress on a goal, we can choose to defer it or any of the issues in it 
> (change the fix version/label) at any time and the page stays up to date with 
> our current plan.
> 
> More info on the integration points: 
> https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf71/use-jira-applications-and-confluence-together-979423628.html
> 
> Since the cwiki spaces are separated between Lucene and Solr, we could have 2 
> pages for this planning that link to each other (if we want).
> 
> Just a suggestion, but I think users who like to try to plan for new major 
> versions would love to see what we’re planning in an easier way, and I think 
> it would really help us stay organized.
> 
> Cassandra 
> On Feb 3, 2020, 7:24 AM -0600, David Smiley <david.w.smi...@gmail.com>, wrote:
>> I suspect your motivation for something other than a JIRA query is that 
>> developing a JIRA query can take a few minutes whereas a simple tag to 
>> search is less.  But just a tag is less powerful and is, I think, redundant 
>> with the existing JIRA metadata.  Tags need to be maintained; if we do a 
>> simply tag this release then we need to clean them up after release since 
>> it'd get in the way at a subsequent release.  And think of it this way: many 
>> of us have already been in effect curating our TODO for 9.x list using 
>> fix-version.
>> 
>> This JIRA query matches 54 issues.  I edited the previous query to list only 
>> issues that are either assigned or that are priority of Blocker:
>> 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20in%20(LUCENE%2C%20SOLR)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%22master%20(9.0)%22%20AND%20resolution%20is%20EMPTY%20and%20(assignee%20is%20not%20EMPTY%20OR%20priority%20%3D%20Blocker)%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC%2C%20updated%20DESC
>> 
>> Feel free to just refer back to this email to click this link so that you 
>> needn't waste time writing a JIRA query.  In addition, maybe we could make 
>> this easier in a release "developer docs" page.
>> 
>> ~ David Smiley
>> Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 7:38 AM Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> bq. it seems like a huge misuse of JIRA
>> 
>> I disagree, but not enough to bikeshed. I’m looking for the most efficient 
>> way to get the scope of what we want to include in 9.0 defined.
>> 
>> Wading through 134 issues is tedious, WDYT about a “future” tag? Once we go 
>> through those 134 issues and change the ones we know we won’t get to the 
>> process will be more tractable. We could make the ones we want to include in 
>> 9.0 “blockers”.
>> 
>> Point is mostly to get a way to measure progress. The last thing I want to 
>> do is wade through 134 issues making a judgement call on each one multiple 
>> times between now and release.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > On Feb 2, 2020, at 4:48 PM, David Smiley <david.w.smi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > We can use JIRA to annotate what we want to do for 9x.  I know from 
>> > experience it can be a bit aspirational and that's okay.  Eventually 
>> > reality will set in and we'll remove the fix-version accordingly.
>> >
>> > ~ David Smiley
>> > Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer
>> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 4:46 PM Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > One Lucene issue I'd like to have in 9.0 is 
>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9047, which is about making 
>> > our directory abstractions little-endian instead of big-endian. It would 
>> > be breaking enough that it should be done in a major.
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 3:35 PM Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> 
>> > wrote:
>> > What are people’s thoughts about Solr 9.0? It’d be a little faster than 
>> > our recent cadence, the last two major releases were about 18 months after 
>> > the one before and we released Solr 8.0 last March.
>> >
>> > Besides the usual reasons, there are two drivers I can think of:
>> >
>> > 1> We can drop Java 8 compatibility.
>> > 2> We can migrate to exclusively use Gradle as the build system.
>> >
>> > The Gradle build isn’t complete yet, although it’s maturing pretty quickly 
>> > (and Dawid has yeoman’s duty!). My question isn’t so much “should we start 
>> > the release process for Solr 9.0 next week” as it is “What milestones 
>> > should we reach before starting the 9.0 release process?”
>> >
>> > Maybe something as simple as “Start the 9.0 process a month after removing 
>> > the ant components of the build system”.
>> >
>> > And a reasonable answer at this point is “it’s way too early to even talk 
>> > about it”.
>> >
>> > Erick
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